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Monday Prize Crossword/Aug 18 Familiar territory for a Monday. While Dante kept the number of cryptic definitions to a minimum, our beloved setter did his best to conceal a couple of definitions in such a … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 16, 2014 A Cincinnus puzzle is a rarer treat than it used to be, and a very welcome one. My favourite clues here are 1a … Read more >>
Great stuff from Aardvark today, interesting all the way though. Thank you Aardvark.
IMPORTANT: Please see the PS at the bottom of this post.
The main event will be at The Fox and Roman, 58 Tadcaster Road, Dringhouses, York YO24 1LR. I’m organising a buffet lunch for around 2-3pm which, as on previous occasions, will come to £8-10 per person. The pub opens at 1130am.
The Don takes over Dac’s end of the month Wednesday slot, with a relatively straightforward puzzle. One or two synonyms seemed a little tenuous to us, but they didn’t hold up progress too … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26349.
This was the first offering from Pointer, and a very nice puzzle it was too. The preamble was pretty complex: The completed grid relates to a scene of a drama first produced on … Read more >>
A common theme in preambles to blogs of Brummie puzzles is that they turned out to be less difficult than they first appeared and I could say this yet again. I think the … Read more >>
It has fallen to Scorpion to put us through our cruciverbal paces today. I had to chip away at this one, gradually working my way through the clues, rather than solving them in … Read more >>
Smooth sailing today.
This all seemed fairly straightforward for the most part, with Chambers just required to wrap up a few loose ends. The bit where I am stumped is 25 down. The initial letter is … Read more >>
The issue that was causing problems when using HTML tags in comments has now been resolved so please ignore my original post (see below) and continue to use them if/when required. ************* Original … Read more >>
*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a Hom. = homophone I’ve not come across Commoner much, although the name sounds familiar (maybe I’m confusing it with Everyman). This was a mostly … Read more >>
(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) A fairly easy Quiptic. Thanks to … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) A fairly easy Quiptic. Thanks to Moley. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across … Read more >>